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Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

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589 points gmays | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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HEmanZ ◴[31 Oct 25 16:26 UTC] No.45773856[source]▶
I hope that the actual medical field starts taking note of this.

My wife still has to work 24 hour shifts with no sleep, performing emergency surgeries no matter how long it has been since she slept. During residency only a few years ago she and her co-residents were almost weekly required to do 36 hour shifts (on top of their regular 16 hours per day, 5 day per week schedule) and once even a 48 hour shift when the hospital was short staffed.

Of course I’m sure they won’t. No one cares if doctors are over worked.

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1. random3 ◴[31 Oct 25 16:37 UTC] No.45773957[source]▶
I think both doctors and patients would want a different system for both doctors and patients. Having seen a poor performing medical system, and comparing it with the US medical system, all I can say it's that the US one doesn't seem designed to optimize health and well being of patients and, based on reading several articles representing doctors opinions, neither doctors'.

I do think it's maximially optimized to extract revenue. That can sometimes be good (e.g. good access to healthcare) but often times it's not great.

Given healthcare, along with education should be a national priority, both should be heavily "configured" to serve peoples' goals first and any financial goal should be secondary (although arguably useful).

I suspect the current shareholder structures from hedge funds are (intentionally or not) driving things in the wrong direction wrt to public health goals. This is article from a few days ago is also interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680695